Gloria:

God, would You answer the question now about what happens to the soul after the death of one who takes his own life?

God:

Leslie's original question was whether or not I would forgive her if she ended her life, and I answered that My forgiveness, like My love, does not have to be asked for. My love is constant. You do not need My forgiveness nor do you receive it from Me actually because I do not see anything to forgive you for. Your humanness? You are a human being in order to learn. Should I deign to forgive you for not knowing everything already?

Let's say I forgive you ahead of time.

A truer question that Leslie could ask is: Will she be able to forgive herself?

The situation and motive in the self-ending of a life make a difference to how the soul will feel about it and handle it after the body's death.

When Leslie asked the question, she knew she did not feel good about her wish to end her life. If one does not feel good about taking their life beforehand, is it likely that they will then feel better about it after?

Often, not always, suicide is a protest. It is an act of defiance, and the defiance is towards Me. The person may think that it is against the parents or cruel blows in life, but it is mostly an attempt to get My attention, to get Me to intervene, to get My help, or, if not the help they want, to show Me that I am not the only one who can end a life.

Dear precious Leslie, if you really want My help more than you want to suffer, all you have to do, as so many readers have said, is ask. The drama is really not necessary. I hear you already. Will you hear Me?

What you carry with you before death goes with you afterwards. The soul carries it. Your baggage accompanies your soul.

In the time in Japan when it was considered honorable in certain circumstances to take your own life, how troubled would a soul that took his own life have been? He took his life with love and pride. And he would carry that with him.

We could say someone who runs in front of a bullet to save another's life commits suicide, but there is a grace in that, and love is spread.

With what intent, motive, a person takes his own life, how he feels about it, that his soul will carry. If he does it in peace, his soul will carry peace.

Certainly I favor living with love rather than dying with negativity, but I also favor My children making their own choices. I do not make judgements. The world makes judgments.

If I condemned and slapped the hand of even one of My children who made unloving choices, how then could it be said I gave you free will?

If I would smile on you for only the choices you make in line with My love, would it then have been free choice I gave you?

And who would be unslapped?

If I did not truly give you free will, if I just pretended I do, would that not make Me more of an equivocating tease than a God?

What you carry with you before death goes with you afterwards.

What you do not finish in this lifetime, you will finish in another.

Your language speaks of happy souls, troubled souls, enlightened souls, lost souls, good souls, beautiful souls, young souls, old souls, pure souls. Souls are also growing.

In death of the body, as in life of the body, your soul continues. Infinity means always more, so the soul continues an upward spiral to greater greatness. Consider your soul a bird that flies. It flies high beyond your sight, and then it swoops down to earth for a while and lands somewhere, and then it flies up again even higher.

And when you come back to another earth life, your soul comes back with you, and you go on from there.

The soul is never lost. It is always in My care. It always has My love. Our connectedness is revealed in soul.

And that is all you need to know about the soul after death. The rest is curiosity.

Gloria:

God, if I were in constant agonizing pain, I don't know what I would do.

God:

You would ask Me to help you release the pain, this accumulation of energy, this plugged-up energy.

What would plug up energy but control? Energy flows in and out of itself. When you decide how much of what kind you're going to let in and how much of what kind you are going to let out, you dam some up and limit its course; pain results. Pain is in your control. Your control created it.

I know that My children feel helpless about pain and about life. Their sense of helplessness increases the pain. Pain is not outside you. It is not imposed on you. It is energy blocked within you. It is stale energy. It tries to push its way out. Help it out. Don't block it in the first place.

Consider control the opposite of ease.

Consider control the opposite of happiness.

Consider control a negative, not a positive.

Control comes from lack of trust.

Trust in Me.

Think of control, and how do you feel?

Think of Me, and how do you feel?

Better to turn your life over to Me.

I will do a better job of it than you do.

Pass Me your life, and I will restore it.

I will recharge it.

I will renew it.

I will fill you with My love.

I will fill you with recognition of My love.

You will have awareness of My love.

Your heart wants to know My love.

And that is all it really wants.

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Julie to Gloria:

Dearest Gloria, what a powerhouse HEAVEN has been the last two days!

The poetry from Mother Divine is just heart-melting. I will reread those entries before I sit down to write my New Year visions. I am going to urge my sons to do write theirs also. Thanks so much for asking that question.

My husband and I turned on the TV (CNN) because Edward's dad had told us on the phone that he had just watched the Paris celebration. We became enthralled! It was magic watching the world celebrate. The world was united in this turning of the earth around the sun.

Everyone's wish around the world, everyone's, is a desire for peace and harmony. It is incredible. We feel so united to the world, it is wonderful. I feel so excited and joyful about this new era. What a time to be alive.

One of the interesting interviews was with Billy Graham. I will be honest and tell you I have issues with people who quote the Bible, but that is my junk. Anyway, my husband said, "If we could speak our truth as he does, what a world it would be."

Billy Graham talked a lot about his personal relationship with God. He said the world changes only when a change takes place in the human heart.

I wondered about my openness with the world about how much I love God, for I am shy about it. I have the fear of sounding like a religious fanatic. I think part of the process for me is being more open to sharing my love for God. Oh, I feel like I'm rambling, but perhaps you get the feeling. It is time for more of us to help more of us discover our God.

I look forward to the Ask God Continuing Ed Workshop on January 9. Love and thanks.

God to Julie:

Everything is just as I have said.

As certain as it is that the earth turns around the sun, so certain is it that My Will will be done, love will triumph and peace will reign. What a little thing it is. What a little change. Only a little change, a tiny turn of the heart, and the world becomes your heart.